Five people, including three young children, died in an apartment fire, some taking refuge from the smoky blaze in a full bathtub and underneath a sink, fire officials said.

The defense team for the mother of missing Florida child Caylee Anthony was granted access to her car and forensic tests on Friday.

Former wildman slugger and admitted steroid user Jose Canseco was held by immigration authorities at the Mexican border for more than nine hours after agents allegedly found a prescription fertility drug on him, his lawyer said Friday night.

After spending two weeks out of town, two Dominican nuns returned to their Baltimore home to find letters and an e-mail from the Maryland State Police saying they were wrongfully labeled as suspected terrorists in a federal database.

An attorney for a Japanese businessman accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered has been found dead in an apparent suicide.

Priest who serves as a youth minister at a Roman Catholic university has been charged with e-mailing pornographic videos to a Colorado detective posing as a 14-year-old.

AA balloon basket caught on fire, separated from the rest of the balloon and crashed during the city's annual hot-air balloon fiesta Friday, killing one person, a fiesta official said.

A suburban Kansas City man who videotaped the death of a woman he suffocated during sex has been sentenced to death.

An elderly man shot his ailing wife to death in her bed in a Toms River hospital before turning the gun on himself, authorities said.

A boater was knocked unconscious by a leaping dolphin along the Atlantic coast of central Florida.